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I understand about the different medias but the media I am using I have been using all along.
Also I did as Adrian suggested and burned to a DVD folder. After doing that, using the exact same media, I was able to burn it, using a different program.
So, does that mean PD is selective in media?
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That is good that you'll have three cameras. I was the only one so it was hard for me. I found a great place to film from during rehersal, behind and to the right of the pastor. I was able to use the tri-pod, got good shots of the bride and groom, maids of honor and best men and even the pastor.
The only problem was when one of the brides maids (the brides sister) sang a song. She was facing the crowd so even after moving around to the side I wasn't able to get as good a shot of her as I wanted. And then of course getting to the front doors to film the bride and groom as they were "pronounced" and coming down the isle.
This church had a balcony and I could have filmed from there but I really didn't want to be limited to back shots. I think the bride and groom really liked that I got them from the front.
It was good experience for me and gave me plenty of ideas for any future filming I may do. This was family and they pretty much told me I could anything I wanted so I wasn't under pressure. That helped a lot!
Good luck and congrats on the upcoming marriage! I hope God blesses you with a wonderful married life!
Debby
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James,
I may be the wrong person to do this for you as I'm new to it myself. I really didn't do a lot of editing as they wanted the entire wedding on tape.
Babdi posted a lot of really good advice above and pretty much did a lot of those things but I think you are really asking about my experience producing the DVD itself. Right?
I did want to use fading out in a couple of places but since that would have also meant losing the sound I didn't. I did however make several chapters. One chapter was of course the wedding. The next chapter was the Reception and the bride and groom driving off "into the sunset!" The last chapter was a slide show of all the pictures I took with my digital camera.
The overall process with PD was really pretty good except there were things I wanted to do but couldn't figure out how, like fading the video but keeping the sound. The advice I got above for doing that came too late for the video I already sent the bride and groom so they didn't get that. I will remake it with that feature though because even though they said the camera shake wasn't that bad I wasn't happy with it. They really seemed to like it though and expressed their delight with it so I guess it didn't turn out too bad...
Hope this helps you and good luck!
Debby
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I found that yesterday and was trying it but I had to shut it down as I had to go somewhere. I will try it again today. Seems funny that it takes as long to do that as it did to burn it. An hour and a half into it I had to stop. Guess it's going to take 3 and half hours to do it. Thank you so much for your help.
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No it didn't help. I should have mentioned also that I am using Vista OS. Can you tell me how to save the project that another burning software would recognize? I have Roxio Basic 9 and Magic DVD Copier but both say there is no video to burn.
I tried using the "Pack Files" option but that didn't help either. I can't find anything in the help files that will refer to the pack file option so I don't know WHAT that is doing...
I hate being so lost!
Debby
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I hope I can get some help on this, I have written to the help desk and they have been no help at all! Five times now I have tried to burn my monthly DVD of our church services. I have been doing it now for 6 months with no problems. For some reason I can't burn the DVD for March. After 3 and half hours of burning I get an error that the burn failed and an error number eb130581.
I don't know why this is happening, I have updated and have all the latest patches. I can't burn the DVD using another program because I guess I don't know how to save it properly. I want to use all the special effects, chapters and titles I put on it.
Can anyone help a dummy? Please try to keep it simple as I am really new to all this. I am kind of self taught so I don't know the terminology.
Debby
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That is an awesome idea! How come I didn't think of that?? Thank you so much, I know just the right shot to use there too.
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I was wondering if a portion of my video could be "blacked" out but still have the sound on? I am doing a wedding video and during a speech by the best man, right before the couple comes down the isle, I had to walk backwards to the door to get a front shot of the bride and groom. As you can imagine there was considerable camera movement. I thought it would be best to kind of fade out the video or freeze it at that point but still hear the best man. Is this possible or am I dreaming?
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